Understanding how language emerged in our species calls for a detailed investigation of the initial specialization of the human brain for speech processing. Our earlier research demonstrated that an adult-like left-lateralized network of perisylvian areas is already active when infants listen to sentences in their native language, but did not address the issue of the specialization of this netw...

Understanding how language emerged in our species calls for a detailed investigation of the initial specialization of the human brain for speech processing. Our earlier research demonstrated that an adult-like left-lateralized network of perisylvian areas is already active when infants listen to sentences in their native language, but did not address the issue of the specialization of this netw...

Repetition is a fundamental element in generating and perceiving structure in music. Recent work has applied this principle to separate the musical background from the vocal foreground in a mixture, by simply extracting the underlying repeating structure. While existing methods are effective, they depend on an assumption of periodically repeating patterns. In this work, we generalize the repeti...

A sung vocal line is the prominent feature of much popular music. It would be useful to reliably locate the portions of a musical track during which the vocals are present, both as a ‘signature’ of the piece and as a precursor to automatic recognition of lyrics. Here, we approach this problem by using the acoustic classifier of a speech recognizer as a detector for speech-like sounds. Although ...

Music for voice holds a special place in the opus of Serbian composer Jug Markovic. In all his pieces, Markovic maintains type care vocal part that distinguishes him context art music, and, at same time, puts on international map contemporary composers who work with non-traditional ways. This is reflected intention to diversify performing techniques and styles, detailed instructions regarding t...